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Off to the Races!

School is out ! Summer is here ! We are excited !  And we are going to celebrate by going camping/racing for the weekend.  What could be better?  We are looking forward to hanging out with friends , spending time together, and cheering each other on. It should work out well. I will be kicking off the racing fun on Saturday morning at 7:45. Noah will be competing in the kids' duathlon (run-bike-run) at 3pm with his friend Sam. And Karl will show us how it's done on Sunday morning at the off-road triathlon. Max has yet to decide if he wants to join in on the fun or just watch. It's up to him.  So. An Olympic distance race (1.5k, 40k, 10k) is on tap for me. Yikes. I haven't done one of those since last May! But I am really looking forward to it. Deuces Wild is also offering a half-ironman but, considering that we have the whole family with us and I want this to be a fun and not stressful weekend, I figured it would be better if the race didn't take...

Recovery Mama-Style

Hot tub in our apartment complex.  Top two pictures courtesy of Max.  Everyday morning life looks something like this:  training breakfast, get kids ready for school Karl or I bike kids to school training rush to pick Max up from pre-school between 12-1 It's our morning routine and I love it. Most days. Usually I have just enough time to take a deep breath and realize how blessed I am and how much fun this journey is. One of my favorite moments is biking home from preschool with my 4-year-old. He is getting so good on his bike! He's been riding it for almost 2 years now but finally he is getting to the point where I can trust him a little more on our commute. Except when we are standing at a light and suddenly, for no apparent reason, he falls over and almost off the sidewalk. Yikes! So I still have approximately 2.5 mini heart attacks every day. But I try to keep my mouth shut and let him do his thing. Unless he goes full speed toward a red tr...

St. George 70.3 - RACE REPORT

I can't get enough of this place! Pre-Race The day before the race certainly didn't go as well as it could have. I am a planner and I like things to go according to plan . D'uh. Who doesn't? I take pride in being organized, calm, and prepared but ended up being none of those. Go figure.  Highlights :  Remember how I got a ride with a guy I'd never met? His brother joined us as well and it turned out to be fantastic! Super cool guys and a fancy car made the drive go by way more quickly than usual. Despite the detour through Las Vegas because, what do you know, D and P like to gamble , so we stopped at the Mirage and they placed their Kentucky Derby bets. I wasn't about to complain... I was fortunate enough to stay at my favorite hotel! Hotel de Rue . Which isn't a hotel at all. We just call it that because C and A Rue are incredibly nice and open up their home to many of us many times a year. Such a blessing! breakfast with friend...

St. George 70.3 - A Rookie Story

Since I am going to be on the road to St. George today, I figured I would let Karl entertain you. He is good at that! This is my favorite piece of writing by him and thus I had to share. I just read it again and it still makes me laugh! Enjoy! How I got into Triathlon by Karl Jarvis the fam after a double win back in 2006 Had I not met  Sarah , life would have been  simpler .  Running   races is much more straightforward when you don't use up all of your energy beforehand with a big swim and ride. If you haven't already slurped all of your glycogen stores dry before you start the run, it's nice and easy. Relatively. But this crazy triathlete I was dating showed me how to make the simplest of sports ridiculously  complicated   and much more  painful   than it has to be. Oh well. I knew Sarah was into  triathlon  while were dating, so after discussing it for a while, we decided to do a  trade . She had to do my ...

St. George 70.3 - What I Will NOT Look Like

Oh my. I can't believe I am actually posting any of these picture on the internet. It's quite embarrassing but also pretty entertaining. But, hey, I have an excuse: It was 1996 !!! I am sure not all of you walked around with hideous sunglasses, a race number 3 times the size of your head, and your 'bikini' bottoms pulled up all the way to your belly button. Funny thing is, if I remember right (and I am hardly ever wrong) : I thought I was pretty cool back then! Ha! Sometimes I crack myself up...  These pictures (except for the very last) are from my very first triathlon back when I was 16. How times have changed! I will most certainly not be wearing... What do you call that thing? It's not really a bikini but it's definitely not your regular two-piece either. Whatever it is, I have no intentions of ever wearing it (or anything remotely similar) again. (Although I may or may not still have that outfit in some drawer back in Germany.) I a...